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Guild Members (Current and Past) Win Big E Awards

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Former Appleton Creamery apprentice Louella Hill

Former Appleton Creamery apprentice Louella Hill

Three current Maine Cheese Guild members won a total of seven awards at the Big E Eastern States Exposition 2009 Cheese Competition in West Springfield, MA. In addition, former Appleton Creamery apprentice and MCG member Louella Hill won two awards for her Narragansett Creamery in Rhode Island.

MCG Winners were:
Pineland Farms for

  • Salsa Jack
  • Onion and Garlic
  • Smoked Monterey
  • Smoked Salsa Jack

Appleton Creamery for

  • Chevre in Olive Oil
  • Georges Highland aged sheep cheese

Longfellow Creamery for

  • Feta

Cheese & Wine Tour of France Planned for Feb 2010

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Mont St. Michel

Mont St. Michel

Janet’s Agricultural Tours is planning a nine day tour of France from the cheese perspective, visiting Paris, Burgundy, the Loire Valley, Normandy, and many points in between.

The tour as planned includes:
•Round-trip airfare from Boston to Paris
•8 nights hotel accommodations based on sharing twin
rooms (single room available for additional fee)
•Included meals: daily breakfast, 7 dinners, 3 lunches
•Comfortable motor coach transportation throughout
the tour
•Guided tours of at least four cow and/or goat dairy operations
•Panoramic guided sightseeing tour of Paris
•Guided tour of Mont Saint Michel
•Entrance to Chateau of Chenonceau and Mont St
Michel
•Guided tour of Rungis market (including breakfast)
•Vineyard tours and wine and calvados tastings
•Dinner cruise on Bateaux Mouches in Paris
•Services of local tour manager
•Tips and gratuities for included services
•Baggage handling in hotels (1 piece per person)

Contact Janet Spear at rwspear@roadrunner.com, or visit http://spearsfarmstand.com/Tours.htm for more information.